- Meta Is Blocking Links To ICE List on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads
Source: Wired
“Meta has started blocking its users from sharing links to ICE List, a website that has compiled the names of what it claims are Department of Homeland Security employees, a project the creators say is designed to hold those employees accountable. … As agents from Border Patrol and Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which are under DHS, have continued to terrorize immigrant communities and kill US citizens, activists have sought to track and record their activity online in a bid to hold them accountable. But as well as threatening to prosecute those they claim are ‘doxing’ ICE agents, the Trump administration has pressured tech companies to block any efforts at crowdsourcing the location and activities of those agents.” (01/27/26)
- Trinidadian Families File Wrongful Death Lawsuit Over Boat Strike by US Military
Source: New York Times
“Relatives of two Trinidadian men the U.S. military apparently [murdered] in a boat strike filed a wrongful-death lawsuit on Tuesday, bringing the first legal challenge in an American court to President Trump’s policy of targeting vessels suspected of smuggling drugs at sea. The lawsuit was filed in Federal District Court in Boston by the mother of one of the men, Chad Joseph, and the sister of the other, Rishi Samaroo. It said they vanished after telling their families they were about to take a boat home from Venezuela in mid-October. Mr. Trump announced on Oct. 14 that the military had attacked such a boat and [murdered] six people. … The lawsuit, brought by the American Civil Liberties Union and the Center for Constitutional Rights, names the U.S. government as a defendant, rather than trying to hold any particular official accountable as an individual.” (01/27/26)
- Deepfake porn apps downloaded 705 million times on Apple, Google
Source: United Press International
“The Apple and Google app stores have applications that generate images of women with their clothes removed with AI, a tech watchdog reported Tuesday. The Tech Transparency Project found 55 apps on Google Play and 47 on the Apple App Store that alter images of women to make them appear nude or partially nude. … These apps have been downloaded 705 million times and generated about $117 million in revenue, which Google and Apple receive a portion of. … Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok drew backlash earlier this month for following user prompts asking it to remove the clothes of children.” (01/27/26)
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2026/01/27/apple-google-nudify-deepfake-apps/4971769525010/
- Iraq: Parliament postpones presidential vote amid quorum failure and Kurdish divisions
Source: The New Arab [UK]
“On Tuesday, Iraq’s parliament postponed the presidential election session after failing to reach a quorum due to low attendance and ongoing disagreements among Kurdish parties. This delay increases uncertainty over forming a new federal government. The constitution requires at least 222 of 329 lawmakers to be present to elect a president. Only 85 attended, well below the threshold. Parliament Speaker Haibat al-Halbousi postponed the session, citing the lack of quorum and formal requests from the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) for more time to negotiate a presidential agreement.” (01/27/26)
https://www.newarab.com/news/iraqi-parliament-delays-presidential-vote-amid-kurdish-rift
- Fetterman demands ICE Barbie firing after Minnesota murders
Source: Fox News
“Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., has called upon President Donald Trump to fire Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. In a Tuesday post on X, the Democratic senator from Pennsylvania accused Noem of ‘betraying’ the department’s central mission. Tagging the @POTUS and @realDonaldTrump accounts on X, Fetterman declared, ‘I make a direct appeal to immediately fire @Sec_Noem.’ ‘Americans have died. She is betraying DHS’s core mission and trashing your border security legacy. DO NOT make the mistake President Biden made for not firing a grossly incompetent DHS Secretary,’ the senator warned. Fox News Digital reached out to the White House for comment but did not immediately receive a response.” (01/27/26)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/fetterman-demands-trump-fire-noem-deadly-minnesota-shooting
- FL: Vindman enters US Senate race
Source: US News & World Report
“Alex Vindman, who became a key player along with his twin brother in President Donald Trump’s first impeachment, announced on Tuesday that he is running for the U.S. Senate as a Democrat in Florida. Vindman, an Army veteran, was serving on the National Security Council in 2019 when the Republican president pressured Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to investigate Joe Biden, then a Democratic candidate. He and his brother, Eugene, a lawyer on the National Security Council, reported their concerns and sparked investigations. Eugene Vindman now serves as a congressman from Virginia. If Alex Vindman clinches the Democratic nomination, he’ll challenge Republican Sen. Ashley Moody, a former state attorney general who was appointed to fill the seat vacated by Marco Rubio as he became secretary of state.” (01/27/26)
- Iran-backed militias in Iraq and Yemen threaten new attacks as US aircraft carrier arrives
Source: SFGate
“Two Iranian-backed militias in the Mideast are signaling their willingness to launch new attacks, likely trying to back Iran, as officials acknowledged the arrival of a U.S. aircraft carrier to the region Monday. President Donald Trump ordered the carriers to move to the Middle East as he threatened military action over its crackdown on nationwide protests. … the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln and other guided missile destroyers in its strike group arrived in the region to ‘promote regional security and stability,’ U.S. Central Command said Monday on social media.” (01/27/26)
- GM hourly workers to get lower profit-sharing payouts than in 2024
Source: The Detroit News
“More than 47,000 hourly workers at General Motors Co. will get profit-sharing payments of $10,500 for 2025 as the automaker posted full-year earnings of $2.7 billion despite sliding to a $3.3 billion fourth-quarter loss, according to financial data released Tuesday. For every $1 billion GM makes in North America, the automaker’s hourly U.S. employees receive $1,000, according to the Detroit automaker’s agreement with the United Auto Workers. The company posted $12.7 billion in EBIT-adjusted earnings for the year. The payments are down compared to last year, when GM doled out record payouts of up to $14,500.” (01/27/26)
- Asia: Airports launch COVID-style health checks after outbreak of deadly virus
Source: New York Post
“Asian countries are on high alert after cases of the deadly Nipah virus were detected in West Bengal, India. The zoonotic virus can spread between animals and people, mostly fruit bats and pigs, with mild to severe symptoms from fevers to brain infection and death, according to the Cleveland Clinic. Five people have contracted the Nipah virus, the Thai government confirmed. … Countries in the region have been put on alert, with health officials implementing tracking and prevention rules similar to those implemented during the COVID pandemic.” (01/26/26)
- France: Pols advance fantasy of keeping teens off social media
Source: United Press International
“Legislators in France took the first step toward becoming the first European country to block children from social media with a ban that would take effect at the beginning of the new school year in September. National Assembly members voted 116-23 for the ban for children younger than 15, which was introduced by a lawmaker representing France’s Champagne region in President Emmanuel Macron’s Renaissance party, late Monday. The MPs amended the bill to empower the country’s media regulator to decide which social media services will be included in the ban and not limited to just those most popular with teens such as TikTok, Snapchat and Instagram.” (01/27/26)
- Minnesota Murders Shoot a Hole in the Overton Window
Source: Garrison Center
by Thomas L Knapp“Even a few weeks ago, my position on something like the murder of Alex Pretti — sadly not an uncommon occurrence, as cops kill hundreds, sometimes thousands, of Americans per year, many of them unjustifiably — was well outside the Overton Window. … The shots that killed Alex Pretti shattered the window entirely. Not just because it was obviously cold-blooded murder, but because the few government and ‘law enforcement’ officials who tried to justify it were so clownishly dishonest and cartoonishly evil in their deliveries that no one with a shred of self-esteem could pretend to, and no one with an IQ over 40 could actually, believe them.” (01/27/26)
- Censorship and the Ratchet Effect: Threats to Free Speech Outlast Supposed Crises
Source: The Daily Economy
by Julian Adorney“Late last year, YouTube announced plans to reinstate accounts that had been banned at the behest of the Biden Administration for posting alleged COVID-19 misinformation. The announcement likely came as a relief to groups like the Children’s Health Defense Fund, a group associated with Robert Kennedy Jr.; and to Senator Ron Johnson; both of whom were punished by the social media giant for posting videos that ran contrary to the Biden administration’s official policy on the COVID-19 vaccine and on COVID-19 treatments. This is a good move. But we should remember, it wasn’t just YouTube that decided to punish speech disapproved by the prior administration.” (01/27/26)
- Gun-Blaming in Minneapolis
Source: The Dispatch
by Kevin D Williamson“The Trump administration, being the Trump administration, immediately set about lying about what had happened, and the usual politics of gun rights were immediately flipped on their head, with Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem insisting that [murder victim Alex] Pretti had been an armed rioter, which is — I do not suppose this even needs saying at this point — not true. Among others, the president of the Minnesota Gun Owners Law Center affirmed: ‘I see nothing that Mr. Pretti did that was unlawful,’ at least with respect to his gun. But strangely, a great many people who sometimes call themselves libertarians began to insist that when an officer of the state gives you an order, your choices are: 1) comply meekly; 2) get gunned down. Ernest Hemingway had their number way back in 1940: ‘There are many who do not know they are Fascists, but will find it out when the time comes.'” (01/27/26)
- The Constitution’s Check on Warmaking
Source: Law & Liberty
by Michael D Ramsey“When President Trump authorized a strike to capture Venezuela’s president, Nicolas Maduro, without congressional approval, it was the latest manifestation of the increasingly common belief by presidents that they have broad unilateral authority when it comes to military operations. The Constitution’s original meaning, however, belies this notion. As I have developed at more length here, the Constitution’s ‘declare War’ clause allocates to Congress — and by implication denies to the president — the power to initiate hostile military action against foreign nations.” (01/27/26)
https://lawliberty.org/the-constitutions-check-on-warmaking/
- The campaign to crush free speech in Minnesota
Source: Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression
by Greg Lukianoff“Governments are always tempted to blame words for violence they can’t control. If “heated rhetoric” were enough, dissent would disappear whenever officials felt threatened — which, of course, would end up being all the time. The speech that federal officials have criticized in Minnesota seems like protected political dissent, not obstruction or conspiracy. That raises the discouraging possibility that the point of the Justice investigation isn’t to bring charges that will stick. Rather, it may be to use the threat of prosecution to chill speech. That’s not law enforcement. It’s ideology enforcement, backed by mob-like bully tactics.” (01/27/26)
https://www.thefire.org/news/campaign-crush-free-speech-minnesota
- Alex Pretti is the latest victim in the Trump administration’s drive for dominance
Source: Philadelphia Inquirer
by Lusi F Carrasco“Before Alex Pretti was shot and killed Saturday by federal forces, he was defending two women who were being violently shoved after challenging Border Patrol agents. The minute that agent started pushing those women with little provocation beyond whatever words were exchanged, Border Patrol relinquished control of the situation. The scrum that followed — as multiple agents pounded Pretti on the ground — was chaos. Chaos that eventually turned deadly, as agents saw that Pretti was carrying a gun. Much as they did after Good’s death, administration officials tried to control the narrative of what happened, blaming the victim.” (01/27/26)
https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/alex-pretti-killing-border-patrol-minneapolis-trump-20260127.html
- ICE Melt in Minnesota
Source: Common Sense
by Paul Jacob“Americans are strongly united against people being gunned down on our streets by federal agents. … Republicans at the White House, in Congress and across the country know the voters will crush them if this continues through the fall elections. Now if voters can only unite on reform beyond merely stopping the shooting.” (01/27/26)
https://thisiscommonsense.org/2026/01/27/ice-melt-in-minnesota/
- International Tech’s Tug of War
Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by Daniel J Mitchell“For years, China’s control of the 5G and AI future seemed unstoppable. Backed by the Chinese state, Huawei — which is labeled a Chinese military company by the Department of Defense — embedded itself across global telecommunications networks, undercut competitors with pricing subsidized by China’s government, and expanded its footprint in everything from 5G infrastructure to enterprise networking equipment. Western governments warned about the security risks, but many markets ignored them. However, something unexpected is now happening, even inside China. Chinese consumers, once encouraged to buy Huawei products as a patriotic duty, are becoming increasingly skeptical of the company.” (01/27/26)
- The Lies Get So Tedious
Source: Caitlin Johnstone
by Caitlin Johnstone“We live in a civilization that was built on lies, is made of lies, and is sustained by lies. As soon as the lies stop, the whole thing comes tumbling down.” (01/27/26)
https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2026/01/27/the-lies-get-so-tedious/
- How Canada Became an Enemy
Source: Paul Krugman
by Paul Krugman“Until Alex Pretti was murdered, the biggest story of the weekend was Donald Trump’s threat to impose 100 percent tariffs on Canada. Obviously Pretti and the backlash that followed were far more important than trade policy. But while the murder of Pretti and its consquences are the most important issue for America right now, we shouldn’t let the attack on Canada slide. We are, after all, talking about a destructive rupture with a neighbor that was, until Trump returned to power, one of our closest allies and remains our second most important trading partner. And Trump and his minions are lying about the reasons for that rupture.” (01/27/26)
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/how-canada-became-an-enemy
- Where Is the Off-Ramp From All This State Violence?
Source: Jacobin
by Aziz Huq“It’s hard to think of a parallel effort in US history to build a domestic agency of violence specialists at the scale of ICE before now.” (01/27/26)
https://jacobin.com/2026/01/state-violence-ice-trump-repression/
- The Fraud Scandal Is A Bigger Problem Than Cops Can Fix
Source: The Federalist Society
by Chris Bray“Police are funded and staffed on the premise that they’re chasing small numbers of bad guys in a population of honest citizens. If that cultural premise fails, we don’t have the cops to fix it.” (02/27/26)
https://thefederalist.com/2026/01/27/the-fraud-scandal-is-a-bigger-problem-than-cops-can-fix/
- Follow the Money: Why Trump Pulled Back From Invading Greenland
Source: Washington Monthly
by Robert Shapiro“The main reason Donald Trump excluded a military option of taking over Greenland was not the frightful national security scenario that would follow a rupture of NATO. As destabilizing as that would be, the main reason Trump reversed course on using the military to seize Greenland was money. He slowly had to recognize that generations of transatlantic security integration have fostered profound economic and financial interdependence between the United States and Europe. I suspect economic advisors told the president that directing his generals to occupy Greenland would risk economic and financial meltdown in the U.S.” (01/27/26)
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2026/01/27/trump-greenland-invasion-economic-risk/
- The hollow corporate response to the Minnesota killings
Source: Popular Information
by Judd Legum, Rebecca Crosby, & Noel Sims“Even after the fatal shooting of 37-year-old mother Renee Good by an ICE agent on January 7, major corporations based in Minnesota stayed conspicuously silent. But when federal officers killed another Minnesotan, ICU nurse Alex Pretti, large companies apparently felt compelled to finally address the issue. On January 25, the Minnesota Chamber of Commerce released a letter on behalf of more than 60 CEOs based in the state. It was signed by the leaders of 3M, Best Buy, General Mills, Land O’Lakes, Target, U.S. Bancorp, and many others. The 215-word letter, however, said very little.” (01/27/26)
- The Feds Who Killed Alex Pretti Are Heavily Shielded From Being Sued. Blame the Supreme Court for That.
Source: Reason
by Damon Root“If Alex Pretti had been pepper-sprayed, thrown to the ground, disarmed, and repeatedly shot by Minnesota police after exercising his First Amendment right to record law enforcement and his Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms as a lawful conceal-carry permit holder, Pretti’s family would be able to sue the officers involved under Section 1983 of Title 42 of the U.S. Code, which says that state officials may be sued in federal court when they allegedly violate someone’s constitutional rights. … But Pretti was not killed by state or local police. He was killed by agents of the U.S. Border Patrol. And thanks to a series of flawed rulings by the U.S. Supreme Court, such federal agents are heavily shielded from facing any civil liability for conduct that violates constitutional rights.” (01/27/26)
- The United States of Consumption
Source: TomDispatch
by Andrea Mazzarino“Here’s one consequence of our consumptive habits: we Americans throw a lot of stuff out. Per capita, we each generate an average of close to two tons of solid waste annually, if you include industrial and construction waste (closer to one ton if you don’t). Mind you, on average, that’s roughly three times what most other countries consume and throw out — much more than people even in countries with comparable per capita wealth.” (01/27/26)
- When Early Cancer Warnings Are Ignored
Source: Brownstone Institute
by Charlotte Kuperwasser“After witnessing, and continuing to witness, the reaction to emerging information about the early cancer signal related to Covid-19 vaccination or infection, I recalled the historical timelines of other early cancer signals. What became immediately clear is that this moment is not unique. For more than a century, society has repeatedly failed to act on early warnings linking environmental, occupational, pharmaceutical, and consumer exposures to cancer. These failures have often been framed as the inevitable cost of scientific uncertainty. But that explanation no longer holds.” (01/27/26)
https://brownstone.org/articles/when-early-cancer-warnings-are-ignored/
- Europe’s Delusions of Power
Source: The American Conservative
by Ted Galen Carpenter“The U.S. should break from the old continent, not bully it.” (01/27/26)
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/europes-delusions-of-power/
- Nonpolitical Media Has Been Flooded With Outrage at Alex Pretti’s Murder
Source: Liberal Currents
by Nicholas Grossman“Reddit was swamped with information about Minnesota, as anti-ICE posts dominated the main feed, and appeared in discussions of just about any topic. Knitting, biking, comic books, pop music, you name it. … Major media organizations have had a similar reaction. It’s the top story at many outlets, most of which have cast the people of Minneapolis-St. Paul as victims and the federal forces as aggressive invaders, rather than credulously repeating whatever the Trump administration says, or adopting a he said-she said frame that shies from identifying who is telling the truth and who isn’t.” (01/27/26)
- The tale of the Ted Cruz tapes is not one Trump wants to hear
Source: Washington Post
by Jim Geraghty“Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, according to Axios, told Republican donors last year he had warned President Donald Trump that his tariffs and economic policies were steering the GOP toward a midterm election disaster next fall. … As you might imagine, our mercurial president did not warmly welcome this warning. According to Cruz, Trump responded, ‘F— you, Ted.’ Somewhere, Beto O’Rourke and Jimmy Kimmel are reading that comment and conceding that they don’t always disagree with the president. If you tell donors a juicy tale about the president, sooner or later, that tale is going to leak. And while Trump no doubt enjoyed cursing out his 2016 GOP presidential primary rival, he’d be a fool if he’s still ignoring the warnings about the economy.” (01/27/26)
- Panama court could trip Trump’s wire over China linked ports
Source: Responsible Statecraft
by Leah Schroeder“During his inaugural address, President Donald Trump made very clear his thoughts on the Panama Canal: ‘We have been treated very badly from this foolish gift that should have never been made, and Panama’s promise to us has been broken.’ Chief among his concerns was that China was in effect operating the waterway. ‘We didn’t give it to China. We gave it to Panama, and we’re taking it back,’ Trump said. And almost exactly one year later, a court decision may make Trump’s dream a reality. The Supreme Court of Panama is currently finishing up deliberations that will determine whether CK Hutchison, a private Hong Kong company, will be allowed to continue running two ports on opposite ends of the Panama Canal — a decision imbued with significant geopolitical tensions.” (01/27/26)
- What if NATO Died?
Source: Antiwar.com
by Ted Snider“If Greenland is the island rock that NATO could crash upon, NATO was already listing and in trouble. The trouble did not begin with Greenland, though Greenland could be the line crossed that exposes the critical condition of the alliance.” (01/27/26)
https://original.antiwar.com/ted_snider/2026/01/26/what-if-nato-died/
- Here is the one and only thing that Democrats actually care about
Source: Fox News
by Liz Peek“They say the road to hell is paved with good intentions. Some will say that Mamdani’s refusal to force homeless New Yorkers in from the cold comes from a good heart and that Kathy Hochul believes she’s doing the right thing for children. Frankly, I’m skeptical.” (01/27/26)
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/liz-peek-here-one-only-thing-democrats-actually-care-about
- How backlash over George Floyd and Charlie Kirk’s deaths has reshaped campus speech
Source: Expression
by staff“The assassination of Charlie Kirk at Utah Valley University last year sparked a wave of anger directed at scholars for their public comments following Kirk’s death. This reaction was faster, more targeted, and more severe than the response following the murder of George Floyd in 2020. Relatively few professors faced significant consequences for comments about Floyd himself. On the other hand, Floyd’s death appears to have spawned a broader, more sustained sensitivity to race-related discourse.” (01/27/26)
https://expression.fire.org/p/how-backlash-over-george-floyd-and
- The Killing of Alex Pretti Should Be the Breaking Point
Source: CounterPunch
by Nick Allison“Watching Kristi Noem and other Republicans once again deny reality and twist the shooting into something it plainly is not would almost be impressive if it weren’t so preposterous. The level of mental gymnastics they are demanding of the public is staggering. When regime propagandists like Noem and Gregory Bovino go on television and tell the American people to accept the ‘official’ version of events, even when it directly contradicts what anyone with eyes and a functioning brain can clearly see across multiple videos from multiple angles, we’ve crossed into classic Orwellian territory, textbook doublespeak straight out of 1984.” (01/27/26)
https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/01/27/the-killing-of-alex-pretti-should-be-the-breaking-point/
- The Dark Side of FDR
Source: The Daily Economy
by Marcus M Witcher“David Beito argues that Franklin Delano Roosevelt was a self-serving politician who cared very little for the civil liberties of Americans. In FDR: A New Political Life, Beito challenges historians who explain away Roosevelt’s horrid record on civil rights as politically strategic (in the case of black Americans) or as an exception (in the case of Japanese internment). Instead, Beito contends that FDR’s glib view of civil liberties was core to his worldview.” (01/27/26)
- Spotting “concrete boats”: Why solicitation sins doom contracts to struggle
Source: Niskanen Center
by Neil Miller“Where should you look for concrete boats? At the bottom of Olympic-sized rule pools. If you’d like to check out the rule pool for yourself, dive into the Department of Veterans Affairs’ recent request for proposals for a software system to send text messages. After two paragraphs of background, a potential vendor gets a handy list of 88 ‘Applicable Documents’ that they must comply with. This includes, in its entirety, The Privacy Act of 1974; six separate policy documents about ID badges; and a 2001 executive order titled Energy Efficient Standby Power Devices.” (01/27/26)
- Four Points on the Wolford Argument
Source: Independent Institute
by Stephen P Halbrook“In a recent article in Scotusblog.com, Akhil and Vikram Amar attempt to answer four concerns raised in the Justices’ questioning in oral argument in Wolford v. Lopez. However, at each turn in their defense of the Hawaii law, their answers fall flat. First, the Amars address the concern that Hawaii treats the Second Amendment as a second-class right. The Justices probed Neal Katyal’s position, questioning whether the government could presumptively ban speech on private property without the property owner’s express approval. The Amars respond that the First and Second Amendments are simply different. They state that violent felons may be stripped of Second Amendment rights, but they retain their First Amendment rights. But this answer ignores the fact that after Bruen, any difference between the First and Second Amendments must be rooted in history. While disarming violent felons may have that pedigree, Hawaii’s law does not.” (01/26/26)
https://www.independent.org/article/2026/01/26/four-points-wolford-argument/
- Why China is playing it cool amid Trump’s chaos
Source: Responsible Statecraft
by Wenjing Wang“While China tends to act assertively in what it regards as core sovereignty and security issues, including Taiwan and the South China Sea, it has reasons to be more reserved on issues beyond Asia. On the one hand, China’s reservation could be attributed to the simple fact that it has few benefits to gain from intervening, despite having signed strategic partnerships with countries like Venezuela and Iran. … And, besides its economic strength and so-called grey zone tactics, China does not possess military parity with the United States, ruling out the option of military operations to police the world. China neither wants to, nor can, take a greater responsibility for issues beyond its interests.” (01/27/26)
- Cruella de Vance: Trump’s Dog-Kicker
Source: Common Dreams
by Les Leopold“There’s a fable about how Bear Bryant, the legendary coach of the University of Alabama, found the toughest players. He would, supposedly, drive through dusty Alabama towns with a dead dog tied behind his car. He’d then stop his car where the high school boys hung out and wait. The kid who came over and kicked that dead dog would get a scholarship. JD Vance aspires to be the captain of the MAGA team when Trump moves on. The way to get there, he seems to believe, is to kick the dog, whichever one is most helpless (and not being eaten by Haitians), and show that he’s even meaner than Trump.” (01/26/26)
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/cruella-de-vance-dog-kicker
- EFF Statement on ICE and CBP Violence
Source: Electronic Frontier Foundation
by Cindy Kohn“Dangerously unchecked surveillance and rights violations have been a throughline of the Department of Homeland Security since the agency’s creation in the wake of the September 11th attacks. In particular, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) have been responsible for countless civil liberties and digital rights violations since that time. In the past year, however, ICE and CBP have descended into utter lawlessness, repeatedly refusing to exercise or submit to the democratic accountability required by the Constitution and our system of laws.” (01/26/26)
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/01/eff-statement-lawless-actions-ice-and-cbp
- The Warmth of Cooperation
Source: EconLog
by Christopher Freiman“You probably didn’t compete with anyone when you bought coffee at Starbucks this morning. You didn’t enter a zero-sum struggle when you paid your phone bill, purchased groceries and gas, or caught a movie. Instead, you took part in a series of mutually beneficial, voluntary transactions. You gave someone money and they gave you something you wanted more than the money. Everyone walked away better off. In the words of Adam Smith, ‘It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.’ Competition, by contrast, rarely pops up in your day-to-day economic life.” (01/27/26)
- A Dying Woman Found Peace With Mushrooms. Most Americans Aren’t Allowed That Option.
Source: Reason
“A new film tells the story of a cancer patient’s quest to confront the existential angst of dying by taking magic mushrooms.” (01/27/26)
- Rising, 01/27/26
Source: The Hill
“Send in Tom Homan! Trump ready to fix Minnesota ICE mess: Robby Soave.” (01/27/26)
https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/5706919-rising-january-27-2026/
- Uncommon Knowledge, 01/27/26
Source: Hoover Institution
“Thomas Sowell on School Choice and the Price Our Children Pay for Bad Ideas.” (01/27/26)
https://www.hoover.org/research/thomas-sowell-school-choice-and-price-our-children-pay-bad-ideas
- Capital Record, episode 282
Source: National Review
“Human Action in the Age of Isolation.” (01/27/26)
https://www.nationalreview.com/podcasts/capital-record/human-action-in-the-age-of-isolation/
- The Bryan Hyde Show, 01/27/26
Source: The Bryan Hyde Show
“Eric Peters from Eric Peters Autos joins me for my weekly current events therapy session. Eric does a marvelous job of keeping focused on the principles at stake as our national situation gets more chaotic.” (01/27/26)
- The Daily, 01/27/26
Source: New York Times
“The ‘Ghost Fleets’ Moving Oil Around the World.” (01/27/26)
- Advisory Opinions, 01/27/26
Source: The Dispatch
“Analyzing ICE Shootings.” (01/27/26)
https://thedispatch.com/podcast/advisoryopinions/analyzing-ice-shootings/
- Cato Daily Podcast, 01/27/26
Source: Cato Institute
“History Makes Clear: School Choice Is Necessary in a Diverse Society.” (01/27/26)
- The Daily Blast With Greg Sargent, 01/27/26
Source: The New Republic
“A Dem Senator’s Harsh Takedown of Trump Hits Home: ‘Breaking Point.'” (01/27/26)
https://newrepublic.com/article/205723/dem-senator-harsh-new-takedown-trump-hits-home-breaking-point
- SolutionsWatch, 01/27/26
Source: The Corbett Report
“Starving the Data Centre Beast.” (01/27/26)
- Right Now With Perry Bacon, 01/27/26
Source: The New Republic
“The Problem Is Bigger Than ICE.” (01/27/26)
- Bulwark Takes, 01/27/27
Source: The Bulwark
“You Don’t Get a Mulligan for Murder.” (01/27/26)